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Domestic and sacred. So highly esteemed is the tree, 

 that a mythological Origin was assigned to it by the an- 

 cient Hindus. This said, that when Indra was drinking nectar 

 in heaven, a drop of the flaid feil on the earth and pro- 

 duced the haritaki- plant" 



Malang, 29 Januari 1909. 



van Delden Laerne. 



